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Rumspringa to Be Or Not to Be Amish 1St Edition Ebook, Epub RUMSPRINGA TO BE OR NOT TO BE AMISH 1ST EDITION PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Tom Shachtman | --- | --- | --- | 9780865477421 | --- | --- Rumspringa, The Amish Rite of Passage - Amish Furniture Factory According to Devil's Playground , at the age of 16, Amish youth are allowed to depart from many of the Amish rules. The young people sample life outside of the Amish community. Many drive cars, wear modern clothes and cut and style their hair in more fashionable styles, get jobs, have romantic and sexual relationships, and some experiment with drugs. One Amish youth whom the film follows, Faron—a preacher's son —turns to drug dealing to satisfy his habit. Faron is eventually apprehended by the authorities; he aids them in arresting another dealer. Each of the film's subjects faces a variety of challenges and pressures from both the "English World" and the "Amish World" of their families. Some make the commitment to return to their communities, others do not. One girl is baptized but later leaves the Amish church, resulting in her family shunning her. He wrote that the film deals in a poignant way with rumspringa. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the documentary film. For other films by this title, see Devil's Playground disambiguation. Release date. Running time. Retrieved Devil's Playground. Stick Figure Productions. Event occurs at This retention rate is the highest ever since the founding of the Amish church in Archived from the original on AFI Online. Skip to search Skip to main content. Reporting from:. Your name. Your email. Send Cancel. Check system status. Toggle navigation Menu. Help Need help? Name of resource. Problem URL. Describe the connection issue. Rumspringa : to be or not to be Amish. Responsibility Tom Shachtman. Edition 1st ed. Physical description p. Available online. Full view. Green Library. NPR Cookie Consent and Choices Inculcated from Day 1 to believe in eternal damnation for those who "go away," it's hard to imagine that Amish youth have the skills or positive outlook necessary to adapt and succeed beyond their own communities. Not surprisingly, more than 80 percent of Amish youth return to the church. But that may be changing. According to Amish historian Joseph E. Beiler, the Amish way of life was traditionally agricultural and didn't really get a reputation for being an "old-time religion" until after the Civil War, when changes in fashion and technology forced them to add more restrictions to the ordnung. For example, the Amish need always be in contact with the earth, which is why they do not allow rubber wheels on their buggies. But in a highly industrialized world, manual labor cannot possibly compete with farms using modern-day machinery. Today, only about 20 percent of Amish males make their living from farming. The loss of farming as an occupation has put a huge strain on the family because men who would normally be close to home have had to "work away. In his final analysis, Shachtman invokes the theories of the great psychologists Abraham Maslow and Alfred North Whitehead to help him sort it all out. Considering Maslow's fourth hierarchy of needs, he writes: "But my experience among the Amish demonstrates that, at least for this group of Americans, 'esteem' needs are not universal. Adult Amish, and youth returning to the fold after Rumspringa, frequently express their utter disregard for whether or not the outside world esteems them as a group or as an individual. As for Whitehead's ranking of values, he notes that where Americans in general are confused by their myriad choices, the Amish remain content because the church has chosen for them. In sum, the Amish are more satisfied in life than other Americans; however, the larger world is exerting tremendous pressure on their way of life. Shachtman avers: "The Amish are going to change, whether they want to or not. For my own part, I just hope that little farmhouse with the sign out front and the bonneted girls playing in the yard will still be there — for my granddaughters' sake. Already a subscriber? Your subscription to The Christian Science Monitor has expired. You can renew your subscription or continue to use the site without a subscription. If you have questions about your account, please contact customer service or call us at This message will appear once per week unless you renew or log out. No ratings or reviews yet. Be the first to write a review. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Save on Non-Fiction Books Trending price is based on prices over last 90 days. Cialdini, Robert B. You may also like. Tom Clancy Paperback Children. Paperback Tom Wolfe Books. Tom Clancy Paperback Books. Tom Clancy Military Paperback Books. Stock photo. Brand new: Lowest price The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging where packaging is applicable. Title: Rumspringa. Catalogue Number: Format: BOOK. Missing Information?. See all 7 brand new listings. Buy It Now. Add to cart. About this product Product Information "Rumspringa "is Tom Shachtman's celebrated look at a littleknown Amish coming-of-age ritual, the "rumspringa--"the period of "running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. During this time, Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, revealing clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties. Rumspringa by Tom Shachtman: Summary and reviews I'm curious as to how they can ignore modern Pennsylvania, my old stomping ground, is a quirky place. I'm curious as to how they can ignore modern conveniences when they are so closely surrounded by a technology-dependent culture. But what is even more fascinating to me is how the Amish are a tourist attraction. People spend their hard-earned money and their valuable vacation time to come to Central Pennsylvania to basically gawk at the Amish as they go about their day to day activities. I was never comfortable doing that, so I choose to read about them instead. The idea is that Rumspringa will inoculate them against mainstream culture. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. There are narratives about both instances: teens who have "seen the light" and settle well into plain life and sad accounts of teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, and being shunned by one's own family. Toward the end of the book, I was craving more "sense making," but I did learn one little gem of information: the Amish use celery as a primary means to celebrate a wedding Jun 03, Jessica rated it it was ok Shelves: read-in I believe I would have enjoyed this book more if the author had picked a small handful of Amish teens in rumspringa and followed them for a year in their lives and then revisited back with them at a later date. The author has too many subjects he interviewed for this book. As a result you never feel you get a true sense of rumspringa and how it affects the Amish youth. At the beginning of each chapter is a short intro about a person unrelated to the people in the remainder of the chapter which I believe I would have enjoyed this book more if the author had picked a small handful of Amish teens in rumspringa and followed them for a year in their lives and then revisited back with them at a later date. At the beginning of each chapter is a short intro about a person unrelated to the people in the remainder of the chapter which is terribly perplexing. The author gives you mere snapshots of each subject through their own narrative. These narratives are short, maybe pages at best. Each narrative is then followed up by pages of the author referencing psychological and sociological studies on adolescence. Eventually he gets back to a subject later on the book in other chapters but when he does he's talked about so many others you forget what their original story was. It gets quite tiresome after a while. I can only handle so many single incident stories that merely scrape the surface. I found myself craving a deeper understanding on a more personal level. After each story I found myself searching for details or resolution. What happened as a result of this incident? How did the subject feel about it? How did they feel about it in regards to their religious beliefs? How did the incident change the subject? Was the change evident in future incidents? It seemed like all these questions were left dangling. I wanted to feel a bond or at least empathy with the subjects in the book. As is I didn't feel them develop into adults, or insights, or self awareness. I would be very interested in seeing the documentary a few reviewers have wrote about as alot have stated they liked it better than the book. In the end the book title and synopsis was slightly misleading. More than anything this book appears to be a book about the Amish way of life in general as opposed to an in depth study of Rumspringa. While I do find the Amish religion and lifestyle fascinating, I was disappointed this book did not provide many insights to this time in Amish youth's life and I feel I have not come away with a better understanding of this ritual. Sep 05, Mary Beth rated it really liked it. This was a fascinating glimpse into the world of the Amish. The author intersperses firsthand testimonials with his own research and background information. Shachtman deals with a wider variety of issues than you might think would be encompassed by the idea of rumspringa, including the role of women, deeper matters of faith, economy, etc.
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